The Wed-Locked Agunot: Orthodox Jewish Women Chained to Dead Marriages The anguish endured by agunot (chained) Orthodox Jewish women trapped in unhappy or defunct marriages by husbands who refuse to give them a gett (divorce) reveals the power of religious law even when it conflicts with modern societies' moral and legal norms. These women may be civilly divorced but must petition rabbinic courts in their quest to obtain a gett. In these courts women are subject to financial demands, pressured to drop charges of domestic violence and pedophilia against their husbands and to concede custody and visitation rights to unfit fathers. This book takes the reader inside the rabbinic courts, into civil divorce courts and legislatures that contend with this problem and into the lives of victimized women and children. Well-versed in Jewish divorce law, the authors have counseled thousands of agunot and challenged the Orthodox rabbinate's inaction in response to the injustices faced by these women. For three decades Susan Aranoff and Rivka Haut have battled to free agunot, Orthodox Jewish women chained to dead marriages because their husbands refuse to give them a gett, a Jewish divorce. These chained women, citizens of modern Western democracies, may be civilly divorced, yet they are forced into rabbinic courts in their quest to obtain a gett. In these rabbinic courts women are subject to financial extortion, pressured to drop charges of domestic violence and paedophilia against their husbands and to concede custody and visitation rights to unfit fathers--all to induce their husbands to free them. Well-versed in the intricacies Jewish divorce law, Aranoff and Haut have counselled thousands of agunot and challenged the Orthodox rabbinate's inaction in the face of the injustices inflicted on these women. Aranoff and Haut take the reader into the rabbinic courts and their ancient, revered legal texts, onto the picket lines against recalcitrant husbands, into American civil divorce courts and legislatures that wrestle with this problem and into t Autor: Susan Aranoff, Rivka Haut Wydawnictwo: McFarland & Co Inc Rok wydania: 2015 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 248 Wymiary: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm Ilustracje: bibliography, glossary, index Język: angielski ISBN: 9780786479672